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Show City building ordinanc revises fire code rule: Vernal City has approved and is publishing a new revised building ordinance or-dinance that will help contractors and -educe the cost of construction withjn Vernal City. According to Vernal City building official. of-ficial. Ron Stone, the new ordinance abolishes the use of fire zoning and opens the door for a wider variety of building materials to be used. Stone said the ruling that will have the greatest effect is the reduction of the previous four hour exterior walls regulation to two hour fire rate walls. Also the allowing of non-rated structures struc-tures where surrounded bv vards of specific widths given the use of the building. Money saved by the reduction in the fire resistant requirements should ho an incentive to install automatic fire extinguisher ex-tinguisher systems to reduce insurance rates for the structures and munity. pointed out Stone. Other construction charges new building ordinance include ing the one family residences smaller windows in harmor.y 1 energy code. Another area of great concur city building department, said! that all fireplace, stoves, andrt should have a building penr.it . they are installed. Many fires prevented and prooiems etimi.v first chocking on the regulation Stone Some of the stove and ctv.ir." Moms have boon not enough cli from combustibles, unhnod A terminators not high enough roof, no cap stone on chimney ths too small. Stone pointed out The new building ordini published in this week's legal n |